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January 20, 2007

Google Music Player

Google Music Player is a Google Desktop gadget that lets you search and play the music from your computer. Google Desktop indexes your music, but the browser is not the best place to play your music. This gadget is an easy way to build a playlist by repeatedly searching for your favorite songs, to listen an album or all the songs that match your query.

Although the player is a pretty nice exercise, Google didn't read my post from May.

"Search across computers" lets you search the content of another computer. But... you only have access to web history and cached documents (text files, Office documents, PDFs and more). So you couldn't play music files from another computer.

I see an artist selected, an album selected, and a track selected. The song begins to 'play' but no matter what I do there's no sound from my system! Running Windows XP. The music is located in the MyMusic folder which the player found easily. Any suggestions?

So how does one re-index this feature? For some reason, I'm seeing my files but I'm not able to move them into the playlist. I did move my MP3s around to save space, so I'm betting that's the problem. But I don't know to tell this gadget that!

Youtube is sssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooo much better than this you dont even have to install it .Who ever has this its a Waste of flipin time.I once had this and it had a glich and it didnt even work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is crap it doesnt work on some computers it will not work on mine and my sises but it will work on my mums so it is kinda weird they should rethink the development through a bit more first so that the second release is better.

Anyone intelligent on Giga-space for music? I watch music-videos while on-line and the use of Giga-space is exhorbitant. When I only view the internet (emails, meeting-sites, etc)the space-use is around one-quarter that with music videos. I like music and have no tolerance for paying SO much money for listening to music and internet. Is anyone aware of a place that has music from many places (maybe even countries)which uses less space so I can resume enjoying both music and sites? Feeling gouged yet deprived, and I feel certain there is a way.

All I want from a music player is to be able to organize my music like I can organize my emails on gmail. I want labels, not folders. I want to be able to look at a song and know what "labels" I can retrieve it under.It irritates me that in itunes I can't look at a song and tell what lists I've put it in.It would be great for Google, too. Can you imagine the data mining? They would be able to tell what songs are being put under "homework" or "breakup" or "driving" labels and then be able to offer suggestions based on popular choices.